“They’re my prompts!” It’s a creative environment, I told them. Every person there knows how to have ideas and feed them into prompts. You’re making yourself irrelevant if you don’t work to write and think better than an LLM.

All my students got the hint and stopped using it, except one. He failed a few assignments, then switched to AI that must’ve been slightly better, because I couldn’t *prove* he’d cheated. He got D’s for the rest of the semester. The work was bad and robotic. All that doubling down for a D-